Sabine Lütkemeier

Dr.-Ing. Sabine Lütkemeier Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Earth System Analysis - Research Domain I ALTER-Net Summer School Telegrafenberg A62 D-14473 Potsdam Germany Phone: +49-331-288-2538 Fax: +49-331-288-2600 Email: Sabine.Luetkemeier<at>pik-potsdam.de

Biosketch

Sabine Lütkemeier is scientific co-ordinator for global change research initiatives at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. For the ALTER-Net (EU Network of Excellence: A Long-Term Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Awareness Research Network) she is the summer school director. She co-organised the highly acclaimed AVEC (Integrated Assessment of Vulnerable Ecosystems under Global Change) summer school in 2003 and 2005 and several workshops for this EU-funded project. She chaired the German secretariat of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and propagated this research programme in the German scientific community. Her postdoctoral years she spent at New Mexico Tech, USA, funded by a NATO grant. Sabine Lütkemeier was co-editor of the synthesis book of the IGBP core project Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle “Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate” and “Coupled Models for the Hydrological Cycle” published jointly by BAHC, IHP and DWC and both printed by Springer.